15 Movies Like Divine Intervention

Loved Divine Intervention? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Capernaum
#1

Capernaum

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

The Voice of Hind Rajab
#2

The Voice of Hind Rajab

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

Killer Heat
#3

Killer Heat

An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Divine Intervention.

Abdu Mouta
#4

Abdu Mouta

Abdo is a thug working in the drug trade after losing his parents, using force to impose royalties on the people of the neighborhood, while Angham is looking to marry him, and the dancer Rabyia has an affair with him, and so is his cousin Alyia.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

From the Ashes: The Pit
#5

From the Ashes: The Pit

Trapped in an underground pit during a storm, three students from an all-girls school must confront their personal conflicts as they fight to survive.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
#6

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

All That's Left of You
#7

All That's Left of You

In the Occupied West Bank in Palestine of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of ethnic cleansing, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

The Best You Can
#8

The Best You Can

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski in this smart rom-com that reunites Bacon and Sedgwick on screen for the first time in 20 years.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Divine Intervention.

Love & Sex
#9

Love & Sex

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Divine Intervention.

Our Little Secret
#10

Our Little Secret

After discovering their significant others are siblings, two resentful exes must spend Christmas under one roof — while hiding their romantic history.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Divine Intervention.

I Was a Stranger
#11

I Was a Stranger

A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

Eagles of the Republic
#12

Eagles of the Republic

George Fahmy, Egypt's most adored actor, is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like moth drawn to flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the project.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

Fire with Fire
#13

Fire with Fire

A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Divine Intervention.

Honeymoonish
#14

Honeymoonish

Two newlyweds on their honeymoon discover that they are different in almost every way — but can these opposites attract?

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.

A Break of Happy Moments
#15

A Break of Happy Moments

After Durriya pressures Saleh about their crumbling family house, a magical portal suddenly appears and takes them to parallel worlds they never knew existed.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Divine Intervention.